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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was represented by an eight-member team at the South-Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students (SEEMOUS), held on 5 March 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. This year’s competition, staged in a hybrid format (both online and in person), brought together 97 students from eight…

On 29 March 2026, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens published, in partnership with ‘To Vima’ (Sunday edition), the seventh issue of ‘The University of Athens: A Newspaper for Science, Education, and Culture’.

The front page features a leading article titled ‘The Third Gulf War–The Fault Line of a New Era’. Six faculty…

On Monday, 30 March at 13:20 (Greek time), Greece and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens marked a milestone in aerospace history. Three ERMIS CubeSats, proudly ‘Made in Greece’ and developed by the University’s Department of Aerospace Science, were successfully deployed into low Earth orbit at an altitude of 500 kilometres…

Three ERMIS CubeSats, developed in Greece by the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, are scheduled for launch into a 500 km low-Earth orbit on March 30 at 13:20, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle.

The launch will be live-streamed: https://www.spacex.com/launches/transporter-16

The EFP General Assembly (GA) was held on 21 March 2026 in Athens, Greece, with 38 member societies represented. The presidents and the delegates of the national societies convened to review the past year’s achievements under the presidency of Assist. Professor Spyros Vassilopoulos (Greece) and set the agenda for the future.

The GA warmly…

Shane R. Jimerson, distinguished scholar and Professor of School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Department of Psychology at the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

The award ceremony was held on Thursday, 19 March…

University of Athens Newspaper to Be Published with ‘To Vima’ on Sunday, 29 March

On 29 March 2026, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will publish, in partnership with ‘To Vima’ (Sunday edition), the seventh issue of ‘The University of Athens: A Newspaper for Science, Education, and Culture’.

The front page features a…

A delegation from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (HKUST (GZ)) from 12 to 17 March 2026, further advancing the University’s international engagement strategy. The delegation was led by Professor Sophia Papaioannou, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs,…

On March 6, 2026, Professor Patrina Paraskevopoulou, Department of Chemistry, NKUA, delivered an invited online seminar at NASA Glenn Research Center on “X-biopolymer aerogels: Extending NASA-GRC X-aerogel technology to renewable biomaterials for environmental, biomedical, and energy applications”.

She presented her group’s work on…

On Friday, 20 March 2026, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Enterprise Greece – Invest and Trade signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Athens, in the presence of Rector Professor Gerasimos Siasos and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Haris Theoharis.